The best time to book a holiday: get your flights, hotels, cruises and more for the lowest price. Eurostar's ticket pricing is dynamic, meaning that it can vary hugely with demand, like airline tickets. For a start, return tickets can — anecdotally at least — end up cheaper than single tickets. A return ticket is almost always likely to be cheaper than two separately booked singles.
It's often possible to get a Standard Premier seat for just a few pounds more than Standard class. Premier class features bigger seats, a cold light meal and a round of free alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks, so it could be worth the extra expense. Check out cheap travel deals at lastminute. To find their contact details see the list of Train Operating Companies. Skip navigation. Renew my Railcard Manage my Railcard. Frequently Asked Questions? Most frequently asked questions Can I laminate the paper Railcard I have bought at a station to protect it?
A: No. A: We are sorry but the Railcard gives no discount on Season tickets and period Travelcards. A: Yes. A: The Railcard discount does not cover charges on various articles or animals. A: Yes you can. A: Only if there is no ticket office, or the ticket office is closed and there is no ticket machine available to buy your discounted ticket at the station at which you began your journey. If this is the case you can buy your discounted ticket from ontrain staff. Amongst other things, this means that if your UK train is late and you miss a Eurostar through no fault of your own, you're legally entitled to be re-booked on the next available departure even if you ticket is theoretically non-changeable.
A useful protection! However, I'm pleased to say that in most cases Eurostar generously extend this protection to anyone making a through journey, whatever type of UK train ticket they have. If you have a railcard, you can't use it on the UK part of a through ticket, although buying a through ticket may still save money.
Booking opens only 3 months ahead for journeys with a UK domestic element, even though Eurostar itself opens for booking up to 6 months ahead.
More than 3 months ahead and you'll have to decide whether to wait and risk the Eurostar fare going up, which it will or book the UK journey separately using option 3 below , at a higher price than you'd get as part of a through journey at www. But with 5 months to go, I'd lock in the Eurostar fare and buy the UK part separately using option 3 below. First buy a ticket from a UK station to Paris at www. Obvious, really After booking, you get a print-at-home ticket for the Eurostar itself and a reservation code to collect the UK ticket from the self-service ticket machines at your UK starting station.
For longer distance travel for example, Manchester to Paris they are only valid on the specific UK train which directly connects with your Eurostar, so if you want to stop off in London for any reason, you should buy separate tickets as shown in option 3 below.
You can buy these through tickets in either direction, so for example you can buy a one-way or return ticket from Paris to York or from Brussels to Bath. But at www. These UK regional destinations do not show up on the French, Belgian, Dutch, US, or Rest of World versions of their site because UK train companies won't accept euros or dollars and Eurostar won't speculate by taking euros but settling in pounds.
You'll have no problem booking on the United Kingdom version of Eurostar. The booking system seems to work best from stations close to London that have 'walk up' tickets to London such as Reading, Milton Keynes or High Wycombe, where the system can simply add a fixed-price add-on to whatever the Eurostar price is, without the need to check seat availability.
Stations further from London such as Leeds or Manchester require the system to check availability for the domestic leg to London, using a quota of advance tickets allocated specially for these European through journeys. Sometimes this quota isn't very big and gets used up, particularly from stations like Edinburgh or Glasgow where they don't seem to allocate many tickets in the first place.
Instead of doing the sensible thing and automatically adding the price of a 'walk-up' always-available Off-Peak Edinburgh-London ticket to the Eurostar fare, the system simply says there are no trains which meet your requirements, when there certainly are. Give it a try! For the British domestic part of the trip, Raileurope. However, I gather it no longer does so, and now just adds on a normal ticket to London at whatever the cheapest normal fare happens to be.
Booking opens 3 months in advance Remember that you can only book through tickets from British stations 3 months or less before departure. Although Eurostar opens for booking as much as 6 months ahead, tickets for British journeys can only be issued a maximum of 3 months ahead.
If you need to book further ahead than this, buy the UK leg separately as shown in option 3 below. The price of the normal British domestic fares used by Raileurope.
But using Raileurope. And unlike Eurostar. Or you might want to buy European tickets from a site which doesn't do through tickets from British stations north of London such as Dutch Railways nsinternational. In this case you'll want to book the UK leg separately. It'll save you time and money by giving you fast track entry to the city's best attractions. A Eurostar e-voucher is the parfait gift for someone special. For a magical break from the real world, where better than the place where magic gets real?
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